The Pig Signals Series

• Looking deliberately
• Focused and open-minded
• Quality assurance
• Think like a pig
• Observing and thinking
• Pressure of infection and resistance
• The Pig Signals Diamond
• Risks
• Healthy or sick?
• Step-by-step plan for clinical examination
• Anatomy

• Purpose of the farrowing house
• Animals that need attention and indicator animals
• Feed pigs with your eyes
• Activity peaks
• The environment
• Health
• Inspections

• Aggression
• Be prepared
• The first day
• Evaluating feed intake
• Signals of sufficient milk
• Signals of insufficient milk
• The process
• The right environment
• Disease-free, a good beginning
• Preparation for weaning
• Culling of sows
• Diseases
• Piglets with diarrhoea
• Ten points for inspection in sows in the farrowing pen
• Points for inspection in piglets

• Reproductive organs
• Lots of healthy piglets
• Determining condition
• When to inseminate?
• Stimulation by the boar
• Fertilisation
• Pregnant or not?
• Other conditions
• Risk group: gilts

• Drastic changes
• The first day
• Feed intake
• Feed and water
• Peace & quiet
• Space
• Inspecting piglets
• Animal inspection
• Diseases
• Diarrhoea
• Test your knowledge of diseases.
• Respiratory disorders

• Process management
• Everything in its place
• Rest, redirected behaviour and aggression
• Prevention of redirected behaviour
• Satiation
• Warm-cold behaviour
• Sick pigs require early and effective treatment Respond effectively

• Handling pigs
• Looking around
• Moving pigs
• Standard Working Method
• Standard Working Method example 1: tail docking
• Standard Working Method example 2: Intra-muscular injections
• Standard Working Method example 3: castration using anaesthetic

• Looking back and looking forward
• The pig farmer
• Using indicators for better breeding
• Keeping the farm healthy
• Multiple week systems
• Group housing is the future
• Which type of group housing?

• A clean, dry pen
• Monitoring during farrowing
• Intervening during birth
• Stillborn or died after birth?
• Condition
• Water and feed
• Selection and culling
• Euthanasia
• Weaning

• The heat cycle
• Into full heat quickly
• Heat in the farrowing unit
• Ten ingredients for an ideal service unit
• Signals from the sow
• Signals from the boar
• You really can't imitate a boar!
• When to inseminate?
• How to inseminate?

• Gestating or not?
• Return to service or small litter
• Embryo survival
• Analysis of repeat inseminations
• Fertility and infections
• Heat stress
• Autumn dip
• Sow mortality
• The best breeders are the best feeders
• Satiety after feeding

• Buy in or breed yourself?
• Selection to perfection
• Selection chart
• Arrivals
• Feed your gilts well
• Inducing oestrus and inseminating
• From 25 to 30 piglets
• Checklist to prevent introduction and transmission of diseases

• The difference
• Farmer and finisher must be a good match
• Choose your pig deliberately Know yourself
• Always room for improvement
• Biosecurity: common sense
• Preparing the unit
• The day of arrival
• Time to eat
• Dry feed
• Liquid feed
• Water
• Reduced water intake
• Can you do something about it?
• Who's the boss?

• Rumbling in the belly
• Keep on eating
• Sick - dangerously sick - dead
• No energy to grow
• The lungs: oxygen for growth
• The intestines: gateway to the body
• But that's not all...
• Giving medication
• The hospital pen
• Pain
• Seeing
• Hearing
• Touching
• Alert stockman, healthy pigs
• Work calm, work smart

• Almost at the finish
• Large temperature fluctuations
• Cold
• Climate control
• Heat stress
• Ventilation systems
• Growth: lean and fat
• To go or not to go?
• Leaving the farm
• The trip to the abattoir
• At the abattoir
• Checklist for buying piglets
• Decision tree for medication
• Identifying respiratory infections

• Uniformity determined at service
• Finding the ideal farrowing pen
• The farrowing pen of the future
• Clean conditions
• 3 months, 3 weeks and 3, 4 or 5 days?
• Alive and kicking
• Off to a flying start
• Defects and abnormalities
• Genetically different

• Getting straight to the teat
• Importance of colostrum
• Never enough antibodies
• Keeping milk production levels up
• Too many piglets
• Russian roulette
• Too hot, too cold?
• The piglet will tell you.
• Treatments and handling
• Hygiene matters

• The suckling process
• Limits on growth
• Early lessons last a lifetime
• Supplementary feeding
• Diarrhoea in the farrowing room
• Contrary effect of antibiotics
• Spread of diseases from pen to pen
• Streptococci
• Living and learning
• Inspecting piglets is an art

• Ready for weaning?
• Convenience for man and animal
• Sorting affects growth
• Room temperature
• Intestinal villi and feeding
• Eating after weaning
• From teat to feeder
• Liquid feeding increases intakes
• Inspection and care
• Teaching hunger strikers to eat

• A five-star hotel for top piglets
• Thin bellies and tasty food?!
• The right choice for piglet and farmer
• Pamper the piglets a bit
• Water, essential to life
• Good disease resistance is a plus
• Thorough inspection takes time
• Streptococci hard to spot
• Undesirable and abnormal behaviour
• The finishing touch

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